Top 11 low-code-framework Open-Source Projects

• appsmith

  233 31,646 10.0 TypeScript

  Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

  

Project mention: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev | dev.to | 2024-02-05

appsmith — Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API.

• ToolJet

  174 26,651 9.9 JavaScript

  Low-code platform for building business applications. Connect to databases, cloud storages, GraphQL, API endpoints, Airtable, Google sheets, OpenAI, etc and build apps using drag and drop application builder. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. 🚀

  

Project mention: Launch HN: Creo (YC W24) – Build Internal Tools with React/NextJS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-02

As everyone mentioned, there are tons of OSS alternatives which are well established. One of which is tooljet: https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• openblocks

  10 5,567 6.3 TypeScript

  🔥 🔥 🔥 The Open Source Retool Alternative

  

Project mention: Why I'm skeptical of low-code | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30

• mui-toolpad

  10 780 9.9 TypeScript

  Toolpad Studio: Low-code admin builder. Open-source and powered by MUI.

  

Project mention: FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01

This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools.

But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)?

• crusher

  13 516 4.5 TypeScript

  🧙‍♀️ Fast low-code testing framework ⏱️ Create test in <60 secs

  

• splashgen

  8 248 0.0 Python

  Rapidly build landing pages in <20 lines of python

  

• platform

  2 147 9.9 Java

  lsFusion is an extremely declarative open-source language-based platform for information systems development (by lsfusion)

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• brainyduck

  7 68 4.2 JavaScript

  🐥 A micro "no-backend" framework 🤯 Quickly build powerful BaaS using only your graphql schemas

Project mention: Yet Another Fauna Project Has Shutdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16

• paperclip

  4 63 9.9 Rust

  A UI builder for styled components and design systems (by paperclip-ui)

  

• tabbled

  1 55 8.6 Vue

  Self-hosted low-code platform for business applications like CRM, ERP, WMS, etc. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. 🚀

  

• Scaffold

  1 11 9.2 Go

  A low-code http API generator written in Go with SQL integration (by dorian3343)

Project mention: Introducing Scaffold | dev.to | 2024-03-07

Scaffold is a powerful HTTP API generator designed to streamline building CRUD APIs. It abstracts away an entire codebase into a CLI and one file, eliminating the need to carry around massive Git repositories just to serve some SQL data. Your entire Scaffold codebase is configured using YAML and embedded SQL. It's the perfect tool for prototyping or writing simple backends quickly. Github link

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• A note from our sponsor - SurveyJS
  surveyjs.io | 3 May 2024

  With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js. Learn more →

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